unable to dereference % in Execute() method

[bradwbradw]

I'm finding that % symbols seem to always seem to get interpreted literally, instead of dereferencing a variable. Tried any variation of concatenating and using expressions with same result.

using sharpAHK;
[...]
_AHK ahk = new _AHK();
 ahk.Execute(@"
            x:=""hello""
            MsgBox ""x is "". %x% 
            ");

produces:

I found two workarounds though!

1. If I change the dereferencing character to something else, like $, then it works as expected

#
_AHK ahk = new _AHK();
 ahk.Execute(@"
            #DerefChar $
            x:=""hello""
            MsgBox ""x is "". $x$ 
            ";

2. Instead of initializing using new _AHK(), use the ahkGlobal.ahkdll.ExecRaw()

ahkGlobal.ahkdll = new AutoHotkey.Interop.AutoHotkeyEngine();
ahkGlobal.ahkdll.ExecRaw(@"
            x:=""hello""
            MsgBox ""x is "". %x% 
            ");

It must be something to do with escaping chars somewhere along the line between the C# verbatim string and the string that the dll executes, but i really have no idea... hope this helps someone though.

I'm not sure which workaround is more desirable. The documentation (https://www.autohotkey.com/docs/commands/_EscapeChar.htm#Related) does warn against using #DerefChar because it "does more harm than good" and won't be supported in V2